[CentOS] vault.centos.org down

Fri Mar 4 22:25:08 UTC 2022
Nels Lindquist <nlindq at maei.ca>

On 2022/03/01 6:00 p.m., Peter wrote:
> On 2/03/22 12:36 pm, Nels Lindquist wrote:
>> On 2022/03/01 10:35 a.m., Simon Matter wrote:
>>>> On 2/28/22 23:46, Simon Matter wrote:
>>>>> Yes, also mostly down for me. Some requests were answered but 
>>>>> unable to
>>>>> really use the site.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is it just overloaded?  I've seen a few examples recently of people
>>>> building CentOS 8 containers by building repo definitions that 
>>>> reference
>>>> vault.  Naturally, I asked them to stop doing that...
>>>>
>>>> If overload is the problem, I'd suggest that making the site *less*
>>>> reliable might eventually fix the problem.  In particular, dropping
>>>> requests for repomd.xml would probably shed a lot of load while still
>>>> giving human users access to package files.
>>>
>>> In my case I was just trying with firefox to get some files and browsing
>>> wasn't possible at all. Suddenly some pages were shown and then 
>>> connection
>>> was stuck again. However, currently it works fine for me.
>>
>> I've been unable to access it at all for the past couple of days, 
>> either through a browser or yum.
> 
> There are working mirrors you can use:
> 
> https://mirror.rackspace.com/centos-vault/

Whatever the issue was, it appears to be resolved now. No issues with vault.

But thanks for that; I'll be sure to try the vault mirrors in future 
should this problem recur!

Nels Lindquist
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